Christmas Gingerbread Men.
You can have Christmas Gingerbread Men using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Christmas Gingerbread Men
- It’s 450 grams of Flour.
- Prepare 200 grams of Molasses (or brown cane sugar syrup).
- It’s 130 grams of Brown sugar.
- Prepare 250 grams of Unsalted butter.
- It’s 1 of Egg.
- It’s 1 tbsp of Ginger powder.
- It’s 2 tsp of Cinnamon.
- You need 1 tsp of Nutmeg.
- You need 1/2 tsp of Baking soda.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Baking powder.
Christmas Gingerbread Men step by step
Combine the molasses and butter in a pan, cook over low heat, and add the butter. Be careful not to burn it! Once it cools, mix in the egg..
Mix together the flour, sugar, and spices in a bowl. Gradually add the cooled wet ingredients from Step 1 to make the dough..
Once the mixture forms a dough, wrap in plastic wrap, then chill in the refrigerator for 40 minutes..
Roll out the dough, then cut the cookies. Arrange on parchment paper on a baking sheet, then bake for 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 160 C (320 F)..
Once the gingerbread cookies are cooled to the touch, they're ready to be iced. Add any color you like to the icing. (Mix a small amount of egg white to powdered sugar until it reaches an appropriate consistency, then fill pastry bags to decorate.).
